BP officials told South Mississippi leaders Saturday the beaches probably can’t be protected from a major oil spill and will have to be cleaned after it comes ashore…
“It’s not so much that they’re directing the entire slick to the Mississippi Gulf Coast,” Gulfport Councilman Rusty Walker said. “They’re taking the oil to the easiest place to clean.” Harrison County has roads right along the beach, which he said will make the oil easier to haul away than from the marshlands or barrier islands…
So, our beach is like a Sears’ catalog in the outhouse of oil leaks – great plan there BP! The Sun Herald has more on the wipe-up; while the Huffington Post shows how we were set up to be “slicked and slabbed”.
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